Fiction

The Perfect Heist

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Five years after walking out of the Accord, the criminal organization nobody walks out of, he's back in Merranth with a bag of stolen trinkets, a frozen debt, and a scheme to rob the Pendleton vault during the Royal Procession. He needs a crew. An old partner who hasn't worked in a decade. A woman who's smarter than him and won't let him forget it. And the backing of the most dangerous man in Merranth, who wants something in return that Tav isn't ready to give.

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A Cleaner's Duty

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Three days into a routine sweep of the north, Thomas Spaulder's and his squad find an outpost stripped clean and a note somebody hid rather than sent. What should be a burn-and-log job becomes a walk into a facility that isn't supposed to exist, built to turn the Sprawl into a weapon and desperate farmers into its carriers.

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The Shrike

A freelancer of no country and no file, hired through cutouts by agencies with positions they can't advertise. He takes the jobs nobody can afford to own, and he is the best alive at becoming other people. Therein lies the problem: somewhere beneath the aliases, the man himself has gone missing.

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